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During Christopher Columbus’ second voyage to the New World, in 1493, he noted an oddly shaped silhouette of land in what is now the British Virgin Islands.
Mexican tourism officials coined the term Riviera Maya to distinguish this strip of Yucatán coastline from its neighbor to the north.
From the clubhouse of the Abaco Club, high on a ridge at Ocean Point, the tropical jungle descends to a pink-sand, double crescent–shaped beach that stretches for more than two miles.
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is considered one of the most inhospitable places on the planet.
Most Caribbean aficionados know the tale of the Honorable Colin Tennant, or Lord Glenconner, the Scottish nobleman who in 1958 purchased the 4.5-square-mile island of Mustique and transformed it into his private playground.
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